PISCATAWAY — To the tune of thumping feet in the stands at Yurcak Field in the 70th minute of a Wednesday night match between SkyBlue FC and FC Kansas City, Blues’ midfielder Sophie Schmidt set up for her third corner of the night. She could only watch as the ball bounced around in the box, and fell just wide left of the goal.

Missed game-tying chances had been the theme of the night for a team that settled for a draw in similar fashion on Saturday at home against Portland.

SkyBlue had maintained possession throughout the game, but several missed opportunities left it chasing a goal as time ticked away. With three additional minutes of stoppage time added, Sky Blue had one more opportunity to put the ball in the net — and that they did.

Two goals from Moica Ocampo earned Sky Blue a 2-2 draw to keep it atop the league standings.

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Schmidt knew it was bound to happen.

“I knew we had been dominating the whole game,” Schmidt said. “Our motto all season has been to keep fighting and never give up. I’m really proud of our team for fighting until the last minute there.”

The Blues made a decent start with Danesha Adams’ free kick providing the first offensive threat of the day, but the ensuing header was caught by Kansas City goalkeeper Nicole Barnhart.Sky Blue would manage two open shots on goal in its next two drives forward, but could not convert through the first twelve minutes.

Instead, Kansas City forward Erika Tymrak put her side in front, netting the opening goal in the 14th minute.

Barnhart was a brick wall despite numerous breakaway opportunities and a late-half corner kick by the Blues’ offense.

Two such chances came and went when a ball from Schmidt was missed by Adams for the easy put in before Kelley O’Hara headed wide moments later. Again in the 21st minute, Christie Rampone was unable to connect with Schmidt in the box to put the Blues on the board.

O’Hara was then booked minutes before the half as the Blues went in down 1-0.

“To say (we dominated) is flattering,” said Sky Blue FC coach Jim Gabarra. “But I told them at halftime that I thought we played pretty well. But you make one mistake and you don’t know how a soccer game is going to end up.”

The second half began in similar fashion, with Sky Blue maintaining offensive position but missing the target. In the 58th minute, Rampone, the long-serving U.S National Team defender, had her second shot of the game deflected over the goal to end yet another threat.

Following the missed corner kick in the 70th minute, Kansas City midfielder Lauren Cheney drove down the field to widen the lead to two with 15 minutes remaining.

The Blues waited until it looked like all the wind was knocked out of their sails to score in the 85th minute. Ocampo — who entered the game for a struggling Adams — tapped a ball in from O’Hara.

“They say that a 2-0 lead is the hardest thing in soccer,” Schmidt said. “You don’t always have the feeling that you’re going to come back but just the way that we were playing, we thought that we would get chances. We like to play nice soccer, but we know that we can kind of gut it out and fight for it if we have to.”

Ocampo popped up again in stoppage time to tie the game at two.

With the draw, the Blues (8-2-3) moved 27 points, one clear of second-place Portland, which has a game in hand.

Sky Blue goes on the road this weekend to Boston. And lucky for it, this team plays better on the road. At Yurcak Field, the Blues are 3-1, but have also settled for three draws in seven home appearances.

Sky Blue pulled out the win despite the absence of key forward Lisa De Vanna and several other starters due to injury. With De Vanna, an Australian international, and several other national-team players moving in and out, the second half of the season promises a tougher road ahead — if only with some extra talent on the roster.

“We’re filling holes,” Gabarra said. “Other people are stepping up and doing it for us. We still have a couple of players that I penciled in as starters who are out with injury. That will be a bit of a boost and can change team chemistry.”